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« on: October 18, 2017, 11:27:02 PM »

^ Off-Topic, but you seem to be saying that something like 80% or 90% of Trump supporters are deplorables. That's beyond silly. Mainstream Republicans who endorsed Trump like Pat Toomey, Chuck Grassley, Paul Ryan, Rick Perry, etc. may not exactly be your cup of tea, but they're hardly "deplorables", at least not in the sense Hillary was using that term, and they exist in large numbers across the country. Trump's 46% probably breaks down something like this:

~22% Deplorables (in the sense Hillary used the term - outright racists and sexists who display it proudly)
~20% Mainstream Republicans who supported Trump because they just always vote republican - no racism. Not saying this group is winnable for dems - but they don't fit in with the deplorables.
~4% People who couldn't decide right up until the end, and held their nose for Trump.

It's also silly to move literally 100% of the "not sure" into the approve column. No Presidential Approval Poll ever has 100% saying yes or no, unless they take that option out of the poll. There's always 2-4% of the country who literally is living under a rock and knows literally nothing about politics. It's silly to place them in either category.

Your middle group doesn't exist. That they're in denial about their own xenophobia, bigotry, etc doesn't mean it isn't the prime motivator for their votes. All the rest is just rationalizing.

The GOP consists of a huge herd of carefully cultivated deplorables, and a small percentage of amoral capitalists. The only faction to truly break from Trump were the fraction of amoral capitalists (roughly half, I'd guess) who think he's going to burn their capitalist utopia down around them.

The Dems are only better in that they lack a Trump, and have failed to induce quite so much unthinking ignorance as the GOP (although they're moving that way with identity politics).
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